1937-06-25 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 25, 1937.

PRELATE AND MARRIAGE BILL Archbishop Of Canterbury On Church's Position

DOES NOT

OPPOSE

SECOND

READING

LONDON, TO-DAY.

THE BISHOPS MUSTERED IN FORCE IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS YESTERDAY AFTER- NOON WHEN MR. A. P. HER- BERT'S MARRIAGE BILL CAME UP FOR ITS SECOND READING.

The Archbishop of Canterbury said he could not honestly vote against the second reading though he could not vote in its favour, be- cause some of the principal propos- als of the Bill were inconsistent with the Church attitude towards divorce and certainly re-marriage after divorce...

that

No-one seriously suggested the Law of the State permitting divorce should be repealed.

NOTORIOUS ABUSES

The existing law had given rise to notorious abuses, notably in re-

Group photo taken after the wedding at St. Andrew's Church yesterday morning, of Miss (Dr.) Freda Mary Britten Harmer and Mr. Osmond Peskett.

spect of the so-called "hotel bill POLITICAL SCIENCE

cases, but this "miserable episode in

mutual arrangement” was amply as- FOR CHINA'S

sisted by the solicitors for the par- ties.

ARMY LEADERS

Canton, To-day.

Owing to the fact that the Swatow incident remains unsettled, Gener- al Li Han-wen, Garrison Commander in East Kwangtung, will not go to Kuling for special training this

summer.

Other 4th. Route Army leaders will leave for Kuling to-morrow via the Canton-Hankow Railway.

total

Generals Chen Chang, Mu Kim- hung and Tseng Yau-jen, divisional commanders, are among them.

It is understood that the number required to receive special training from the whole country is about 14,000, separated into three He hoped the Bill would be amend-"classes." Each class will receive ed in some respects in committee.training for 15 days. The

ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY

-Reuter.

VALUABLE REMEDIES

When the Marriage Bill, amend-

class will open on July Our Own Correspondent.

ing the law on divorce, reached the NO PANIC ISSUE

Lords, the Archbishop of Canter- OF GAS MASKS

bury intervened in the second read-

ing debate to state his position.

Existing law in the matter of IN

re

ENGLAND

first 5.

London, To-day. The distribution of gas-masks to the civil population of Bri- tain will not be undertaken un- til serious necessity for them arises.

divorce, he said, had proved to be unsatisfactory in its operation and had given rise to grave abuses, de- trimental not only to marriage it- self but to public morality. The Bill contained some valuable medies against this and for those

So declared the Under-Secretary reasons, although he hoped it might for Home Affairs, Mr. Greoffrey be remodelled in certain respects in Lloyd, in the House of Commons the committee stage, he thought it yesterday. was entitled to careful consideration Up till June 10, he continued, al- and he could not honestly vote against its second reading.

CHURCH POSITION

together 9,000,000 gas-masks had been manufactured and placed in readiness for distribution.

Till now four centres of distri-- On the other hand, as the the re-bution, each capable of storing presentative officer of the Church, 11,000,000 masks, had been organ- in his judgment divorce, and cerised in Britain, and nine further tainly remarriage after divorce, was centres were to be provided. inconsistent with the principles laid Trans-Ocean. down by Christ and accepted in its

own laws and formalities by the tion which, in some of its principal Church.

proposals, was inconsistent with Therefore he could not take the those principles and that standard. responsibility of promoting legisla-— British Wireless,

("Mail" photo).

BRITAIN'S TRADE

Heavy Decline In IN ARMS AND

Birth Rate

Vienna, To-day.

The decline in the birth rate in Austria has reached such dimensions that the Federal Council has passed an Anti- Abortion Law, tightening existing regulations.

up

In the preamble to the Law it is stated that during the year 1936 the number of births in Vienna alone decreased by about 14,000.- uter.

AMMUNITION

London, To-day. British exports of arms and munition last year totalled £1,302,- 000, compared with £1,607,000 in 1935 and $1,365,000 in 1934.,

This was announced to the House of Commons yesterday in a writ ten statement by the President of the Board of Trade, Mr. Oliver Stank Trans-Ocean.

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